It’s fun to see that even as Conway Sax & Company undertake their third adventure, folks are still discovering Purgatory Chasm, the book that started it all. I recently had a chance to meet with Pamela Kramer, a talented journalist who covers books and writers at Examiner.com. We hit it off, possibly because Pam clued me in to the finest pancake...

It’s been way too long since I did one of these. I jot things down in my Blackberry (yes, I am the Last Man in America with a Blackberry), and I need to capture the ideas here (hell, anywhere) before said phone gets lost or croaks.
So here are the phrases, names, and images that rattle around in my walnut-sized brain occasionally. If you have trouble...

Yeesh, have I really not posted in six weeks? Sorry. My excuse, er, reason: I’m writing another Conway Sax novel, and this one’s on a fairly tight deadline. I should come up for air in April.
At times like these -punching away at a first draft, working hard through the holidays – any ray of sunshine helps, and yesterday I got a doozy via...

Time to hose out the Blackberry by dumping notebook ideas here.
Fun fact: I can look back through old notebook dump posts (here, here and here, for example) and find ideas that have made it into books – including the title Purgatory Chasm. Kinda kool! (Well, I think so, anyway.)
Here’s the new batch:
Title: Western Star
Man facing firing squad...

That was fun – I was interviewed, just like a real live author!
Here’s the deal: a bunch of terrific writers put together a Pay It Forward project in which they interviewed agented-but-not-yet-published novelists about their books, characters, and (in many cases) publishing deals.
My friend Kari Lynn Dell, with whom I share an agent, drew the...